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How necessary is it to have someone who knows what they are talking about to correct your form while learning to squat, deadlift, bench press etc?

I’ve always been put off from the gym because I hate machines. I was pretty excited when a friend showed me Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and I started researching him more. Turns out the best way to start off is to learn the standard compound lifts (squat, bench, deadlift, clean, overhead press) to build strength and don’t use machines/do isolation exercises at all. This appeals to me far, far more. The problem is I’m kinda worried about learning how to do the movements. If I’ve learnt anything it’s that form is so important that you simply cannot get it wrong or you risk hurting yourself and/or making less progress than you should. This is off putting because I only have videos and books to learn form from, nobody there to correct me on the fly.

Like, I’m just trying to learn to squat at the moment. Just a bodyweight squat. It’s really hard, I can’t do it properly without falling over backwards at the minute. I’m not even ready for the empty bar I don’t think. It doesn’t help that I have no sense of what my body is doing in the slightest. I can’t tell if my lower back is rounded or not, or if my knees are pointed outwards enough at the bottom of the squat. Having never paid attention to these things, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be in the right position. I think I might be too worried about form. but I want to get it right.

It’s pretty important getting the form right from the get go, so many people just wing it starting of and therefore making there form horrible. If you join a gym just grab someone and ask them to have a look at your form, even someone who works there, it’s no big deal. Practicing in front of mirrors too is good.

Squatting is probably the most important one to have form correct, So many people get injuries from not having good form. Me i learned from online, etc then asking the personal trainer at my gym to have a look at it while i was in the gym. All about having the weight on your heels and get down to where your parallel. Think of it like pushing your ass backwards and weight on the heels.